Species Rhyphonemognatha rufa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Rhyphonemognatha rufa (LeConte) - Rhyphonemognatha rufa

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)

Family Meloidae (Blister Beetles)

Subfamily Nemognathinae

Genus Rhyphonemognatha

Species rufa (Rhyphonemognatha rufa)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Original combination: Zonitis rufa LeConte

Numbers

1 sp. n. of Mex. (1)

Range

Ill. & Neb. s. to TX & AZ (1)

Remarks

TYPE: One specimen, Frontera, (Rio Grande) Mr. Clark.

Frontera, El Paso Co., Texas - Handbook of Texas

"This species has very much the appearance of a small Nemognatha, but the maxillae are not elongated: the spurs of the posterior tibiae are broad, the outer one obtuse, the inner one subacute. The second joint of the antennae is two-thirds as large as the third." (LeConte 1854)

Print References

Enns, W.R. 1956. A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with a proposed new genus. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.

LeConte, J.L. 1854. Synopsis of the Erotylidae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7: 158–163. Full Text

Internet References

TYPE - Harvard MCZ

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 28 April, 2009 - 3:20pm
Last updated 21 May, 2009 - 7:02pm

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